Developer Hines has broken ground in Minneapolis’ North Loop on its all-timber office building, the first commercial property in the U.S. to use an engineered wood material for its interior and structure. The Houston-based real…

Seneca Sawmill Co. announced Friday it has started a $60 million upgrade of its west Eugene lumber mill. Paving crews were flattening a corner lot of Seneca’s Highway 99 mill site Friday to prepare for…

Article by Rich Donnell Editor-in-Chief As usual we enjoyed our exhibit experience at the Southern Forest Products Assn. exposition in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta June 10-12. While it’s always great to see…

Voters in Banks brought about 200 acres of additional land into city limits last November and they’ll decide on two more property annexations in September 2015. This time around, though, the land being voted on…

The proposed Hardwood Checkoff program is receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from those in the business of growing dependable, high quality timber for the hardwood lumber industry. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has…

While U.S. hardwood exports lagged in May and June 2015, domestic demand for hardwood lumber continued to improve. Home construction, which dipped in May, was set to move higher, as both permitting and builder confidence…

A trend whereby B.C. forest products companies have been snapping up sawmills south of the border while shuttering plants here is likely to continue. That prediction, from a new Conference Board report, is part of…